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Re:You can do a lot with an empty file by fuzzybear3965 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:52PM (#30938932)
I always thought that 128+ are for (shell-spawned) processes and 0-127 are for shell. But, apparently POSIX requires this behavior for empty files - we need to amend the standard, first (or fail to comply, muahahaha).
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